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- 1. Multiple Choice
'A new memory blocking an old memory' is a description of:
Proactive interference
Reconstructive memory
Retroactive interference
False memory
tagsFactors affecting memory - 2. Multiple Choice
Learning something by putting it to music is an example of:
Semantic encoding
Acoustic encoding
Tactile encoding
Visual Encoding
tagsProcesses of memory - 3. Multiple Choice
Answering a multiple choice question in an exam is an example of:
Recognition
Free recall
Acoustic encoding
Semantic encoding
tagsProcesses of memory - 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an acoustically similar word list?
Pit, few, cow
Great, large, big
Good, huge, hot
Cat, cab, can
tagsProcesses of memory - 5. Multiple Choice
Remembering how to perform actions is an example of:
Episodic memory
Semantic memory
Procedural memory
Declarative memory
tagsProcesses of memory - 6. Multiple Choice
Clive Wearing had dementia, forgetting his wife's name, but could still play the piano. Which aspect of his memory did he lose?
Episodic memory
Short term memory
Procedural memory
Semantic memory
tagsProcesses of memory - 7. Multiple Choice
An example of sensory memory in action is:
Recognising a friend in the street
Repeating someone's phone number to yourself
Seeing the name of your destination on a airport display screen
Remembering the answer to an exam question
tagsMulti-store memory - 8. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a strength of the multi-store memory model?
Research shows that rehearsal helps to place information in the long term memory
All people have a short term memory of the same size
You remember everything that you see
Once something is in your long term memory, you will never forget it
tagsMulti-store memory - 9. Multiple Choice
Being able to recall he words at the start of a list refers to the:
Recency effect
Primacy effect
Serial position curve
Reconstructive effect
tagsMurdock's serial position curve - 10. Multiple Choice
In his serial position curve study, Murdock used a list of words, which meant that the study:
Was a laboratory experiment
Was not very well controlled
Tested a wide range of memory skills
Doesn't tell us how memory works in all aspects of life
tagsMurdock's serial position curve - 11. Multiple Choice
The participants in Bartlett's study transformed the story to make it more:
Interesting
Complex
Familiar
Longer
tagsReconstructive memory - 12. Multiple Choice
Bartlett concluded that we remember:
Lots of detail of an event or story
The overall meaning of something
The start and end of a story more than the middle
All aspects of a story equally well
tagsReconstructive memory - 13. Multiple Choice
A major influence on reconstructive memory is:
The time it takes to recall something
Our level of intelligence
Our social and cultural past
The position of events in a story
tagsReconstructive memory - 14. Multiple Choice
A significant strength of Bartlett's theory is that it:
Ignores an individual's social and cultural beliefs
Can explain why memories are always accurate
Is based on well controlled research
Can help us understand why some people give different accounts of the same event
tagsReconstructive memory - 15. Multiple Choice
'Forgetting may occur if two memories compete with each other'. This is a description of :
Interference
Reconstructive memory
False memory
Context
tagsAccuracy of memory - 16. Multiple Choice
Interference can be overcome it:
Counterbalancing is used
The participants concentrate more
Cues are used to trigger recall
Items are rehearsed
tagsAccuracy of memory - 17. Multiple Choice
In Godden & Baddeley's study into context, the best recall was achieved when words were learned:
Underwater and recalled on the beach
Underwater and recalled on the boat
On the beach and recalled underwater
On the beach and recalled on the beach
tagsAccuracy of memory - 18. Multiple Choice
A weakness of Godden & Baddeley's study into context is that:
It's doesn't tell us about the effects over a longer period of time
The participants were all professional divers
The gap between learning and recall was very long
It was conducted in an artificial setting
tagsAccuracy of memory - 19. Multiple Choice
'A memory for so mething that did not happen' is a description of:
Interference
False memory
Reconstructive memory
Contextual forgetting
tagsAccuracy of memory - 20. Multiple Choice
The amount of information that can be held in a memory store is referred to as:
Duration
Context
Capacity
Coding
tagsMulti- store model - Answer choicesTagsAnswer choicesTags